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University of Chicago English Dept. says it will ONLY admit ‘Black Studies’ grad students this year
Campus Reform ^ | 09/15/2020 | Celine Ryan

Posted on 09/15/2020 7:51:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

University of Chicago English Department graduate programs will only be open to applicants who plan to study “Black Studies” this year.

According to its admissions information webpage, the department is only accepting graduate applications from those who are “interested in working in and with Black Studies" for this academic year.

"For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies. We understand Black Studies to be a capacious intellectual project that spans a variety of methodological approaches, fields, geographical areas, languages, and time periods," the university's English Department website states.

The department’s Black Studies program works “in close collaboration with other departments to study African American, African, and African diaspora literature and media, as well as in the histories of political struggle, collective action, and protest that Black, Indigenous and other racialized peoples have pursued, both here in the United States and in solidarity with international movements.”

The program boasts a “commitment” not just to “ideas in the abstract,” but also to more concrete action in the form of “activating histories of engaged art, debate, struggle, collective action, and counterrevolution as contexts for the emergence of ideas and narratives.”

The university introduced this information by proclaiming “that Black Lives Matter, and that the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks matter, as do thousands of others named and unnamed who have been subject to police violence.”

As literary scholars, we attend to the histories, atmospheres, and scenes of anti-Black racism and racial violence in the United States and across the world. We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people, and all racialized and dispossessed people, against inequality and brutality.”

The Black Studies program boasts a number of working groups available to students, including the “Race and Capitalism Project,” an initiative with work focusing on “how processes of racialization within the U.S. shaped capitalist society and economy and how capitalism has simultaneously shaped processes of racialization.”

Black Studies courses advertised by the department include “Black Shakespeare,” during which students will learn how Shakespeare played a role in “the shaping of Western ideas about blackness,” and focus on “Shakespearean plays portraying Black characters.”

Campus Reform reached out to the university for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: blackstudies; college; englishdept; searchandfind; univofchicago
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To: SeekAndFind

University of Chicago pro racism who knew.


21 posted on 09/15/2020 9:00:49 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sure there’s a White Studies department along with an Asian and Hispanic one.


22 posted on 09/15/2020 9:22:19 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

Do they accept even one dollar of Federal money? If so how can they do something so blatantly discriminatory? They should be informed in no uncertain terms that if they try anything like this they will lose every last penny of Federal dollars.


23 posted on 09/15/2020 9:36:03 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: SeekAndFind

Can anyone really doubt at this point that race is the single most important thing to leftists and the thing they think everyone should be judged by the most? In their war on equality, leftists want everyone treated very differently from each other based on the different categories they belong to with race at the top of the list. In other words, the current left is trying to obliterate everything Martin Luther King peacefully fought for. In the left’s brave new world, everyone will be judged by the color of their skin and not the content of their characters.


24 posted on 09/15/2020 9:41:36 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: SeekAndFind

Does this university get any FEDERAL funding? (IF so, WHY?)


25 posted on 09/15/2020 9:49:42 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Remember: >>>>> o b a M A G A t e <<<<<)
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RE: Does this university get any FEDERAL funding? (IF so, WHY?)

Of course it does. See here:

https://www.cappex.com/colleges/university-of-chicago/tuition-and-aid


26 posted on 09/15/2020 10:03:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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